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Individual Development Planning: Best Practices for Mentors and Mentees Pat Marsteller, Ph.D. Associate Dean Professor of Practice in Biology Byron Gardner Graduate Student If you dont know where youre going, youll probably end up


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Pat Marsteller, Ph.D. Associate Dean Professor of Practice in Biology Byron Gardner Graduate Student

Individual Development Planning: Best Practices for Mentors and Mentees

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If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll probably end up

somewhere else!

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If you have a Plan…

 people who develop and implement strategies to

pursue career-specific goals achieve greater career success as measured by salary, promotions, and level

  • f responsibility

 greater career satisfaction and rate themselves as more

successful than their peers

 7600 postdocs reported greater satisfaction, published

more papers, and experienced fewer conflicts with those advisers

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IDP: Purpose

 ID skills and strengths to develop  ID research project that is feasible and matches career

goals

 Develop a plan to achieve short term and long term

goals and objectives

 Define approaches and strategies to reach goals  Define benchmarks and timelines for achievement  MODIFIABLE!!!

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My IDP….

 http://myidp.sciencecareers.org/  myIDP provides:  Exercises to help you examine your skills, interests,

and values

 A list of 20 scientific career paths with a prediction of

which ones best fit your skills and interests

 A tool for setting strategic goals for the coming year,

with optional reminders to keep you on track

 Articles and resources to guide you through the

process

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Use My IDP

 Skills, Interests and Values Assessment  Career Exploration

 Consider the Fit  Read About Careers  Attend Events  Talk to People  Choose Career Path

 Set Goals for Advancement, Skills and Projects  Implement Plan  Form a Mentoring Team

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Questions to ask yourself

 What are my objectives in entering grad school?  What type of training do I desire?  What are my strengths?  What skills do I need to develop?  What kinds of projects will keep me engaged?  Independence vs teamwork?  What kind of career do you envision?

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Individual Development Plan

Do you have a plan? Timeline for completion? Networking plan for next step? Have you discussed long term goals with your mentor? Write down 3 crucial questions to discuss Share with your neighbor

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Career resources

 Professional Societies

 ACS, ASM, SfN, ASCB, NARST, CUR, NPA, etc.  Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER)

 Government

 NIH Office of Science Education, Career Finder  NIH Office of Intramural Training & Education

 Publications

 The Chronicle of Higher Education, Science

 Online

 Diversejobs.net, AcademicCareers.com, HigherEd Jobs, Inside Higher

Ed, LinkedIn, ScienceCareers.org

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 http://training.usgs.gov/Leadership/IDP.html  http://www.self-improvement-mentor.com/example-

personal-development-plan.html

 http://www.rsc.org/images/gotadegree_tcm18-

48908.pdf

 http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=t

rue&_pageLabel=PP_CAREERS&node_id=87&use_sec =false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=f9b0e60f-2c6b- 4676-b89f-cfb8165b1066

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Thanks to:

Jo Handelsman Christine Pfund Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grad students and Faculty around the country Cathy Quinones YOU!!

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Extra slides

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Finding YOUR Passion

 Three Circles:  What do you like to do?  What are you good at?  What will make a difference in the world (local,

regional, world)? ( another way to think of this is what needs to change to make the world a better place)

 What is inside your circles and what is outside? Take

  • ne circle at time and write as many things as you that

go inside that circle for you. Then try to identify things that lie outside your circle.

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Passions!

 If you push your circles together what kinds of

experiences are at the sweet spot” where what you like to do, what you are good at and what makes a real difference overlap? The sweet spot represents

  • PASSIONS. So now redraw your circles so that you can

see the overlaps. Do your passions align with your intended career pathway? If not, what will you add to your expanded circles and plans for your career to adjust that?

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Expanding your circles through exploration